A New Deal for the World
Subtitle: America's Vision for Human Rights
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: November 21, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780674018747
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Human rights; Social history; c 1945 to c 1960; Political Freedom & Security - General; History: American; History; Politics / Current Events; USA; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; History / United States / 20th Century; History - General History; United States - 20th Century; 20th century; International cooperation
Description: "Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime." "Borgwardt finds the key in the 1941 Atlantic Charter and its Anglo-American vision of "war and peace aims." In attempting to globalize what U.S. planners heralded as domestic New Deal ideas about security, the ideology of the Atlantic Charter - buttressed by FDR's "Four Freedoms" and the legacies of World War I - redefined human rights and America's vision for the world." "By analyzing the interaction of ideas, individuals, and institutions that transformed American foreign policy - and Americans' view of themselves - Borgwardt illuminates the broader history of modern human rights, trade and the global economy, collective security, and international law. This book captures a lost vision of the American role in the world."--BOOK JACKET.